(v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
(n.) A simpleton; a dupe.
Example Sentences:
(1) How did Panahi manage to coax a performance out of him?
(2) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
(3) Coaxing form from the forward is another of Sherwood's early achievements.
(4) Human interaction made captivity more tolerable, so she coaxed it out of her kidnappers where possible.
(5) Sneijder is the last man standing from the Inter side that José Mourinho coaxed to victory over Bayern Munich in Madrid, six days after wrapping up the Italian league title and 17 after their domestic cup win.
(6) Consumer confidence has bounced back; the long-moribund housing market has been coaxed back to life even outside the capital; and retail sales are rising, helped by all the carpets and kitchens homebuyers need to kit out their new nests.
(7) Mr Salmond and his deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, tried again early yesterday to coax the Lib Dems into accepting yet another olive branch: to put their intense disagreements on an independence referendum aside while trying to agree common ground on domestic policies.
(8) Getting someone to cut down their smoking or change their diet is by coaxing, negotiation.
(9) Goodes said it was the support of Swans fans that coaxed him into extending his club record games tally to 372.
(10) The judge, Faisal Arab, had been trying to coax Musharraf to voluntarily submit to appearing in court ever since the hearings began in late December.
(11) Some were fished out of the water with the help of holidaymakers from the campsite opposite who used their own boats; others were coaxed out of their hiding places on the island.
(12) However, he was less convinced by Ant's musical merits, and coaxed his band members into forming a new group, Bow Wow Wow, which would be led by a 13-year-old girl whom McLaren met at a dry cleaners and renamed Annabella Lwin.
(13) On the face of it, the decision to suspend talks is a blow to the US secretary of state, John Kerry , who has spent almost nine months trying to coax Israelis and Palestinians into an agreement about the conflict's most contentious issues.
(14) He coaxes Hicks into repeating what Colonel Gibson told Hicks about not being able to deploy from Tripoli to Benghazi.
(15) She would far prefer to use the collective voice of future Sandbag members to coax the big industrial polluters into handing over their surplus credits than have to rely on members to buy them.
(16) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
(17) A similar strategy has informed my translation; although my own part of England is separated from Lud's Church by the swollen uplands of the Peak District, coaxing Gawain and his poem back into the Pennines was always part of the plan.
(18) Truly, Brexit has stirred something not heroic or celebratory or generous in the nation, but instead has coaxed into the light from some dark, damp places the lowest human impulses, from the small-minded to the mean-spirited to the murderous.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gina Miller at the Convention on Brexit.
(19) So what Ed Miliband should do – rather than trying to coax employers into slowly but surely adopting the living wage (which by his own thesis, some businesses – the predators – may never do), he should cut to the chase and raise the minimum wage to the living wage, thus ensuring that no one in our society is paid a wage on which it is impossible to live.
(20) But organisers of Wednesday’s anti-Murphy meeting are canvassing support from constituency Labour parties in a bid to push Murphy into voluntarily standing down, and to coax other critics of his leadership at Holyrood into publicly calling for his resignation.
Manipulate
Definition:
(v. t.) To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.
(v. t.) To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.
(v. i.) To use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work; specifically, to manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(3) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
(4) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(5) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
(6) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(7) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(8) The intracranial pressure can then be studied and experimentally manipulated.
(9) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
(10) Although a similar conjugation of the B polysaccharide failed to substantially enhance its immunogenicity in mice, this could be achieved by further chemical manipulation of the basic structure of the B polysaccharide.
(11) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(12) Thus, both energy intake and expenditure were manipulated to result in an energy deficit of 50 percent.
(13) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
(14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(15) Hogan-Howe said allegations, from three whistleblowers, that there is widespread manipulation of the figures are currently being investigated.
(16) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(17) Especially once the Libor scandal gave a clear signal of how markets could be manipulated.
(18) Micronutrient antioxidants such as alpha-tocopherol, the principal lipid-soluble antioxidant, assume potential significance because levels can be manipulated by dietary measures without resulting in side effects.
(19) Animals in Groups 2 and 3 underwent exposure and manipulation of the right ureter.
(20) Such analysis provides criteria, based on the response of the components to experimental manipulations, for identifying those aspects of the ERP recorded in other species that are analogous to specific ERP components recorded from human subjects.